FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[exmajor]

This may have been posted already, but just noticed the Millsaps 2009 schedule on the website.  The Trinity game is earlier in the season in Jackson this year followed the next week by Depauw in Greencastle, not an easy two weeks for the Majors!  Maybe the SCAC race will shape up early in the season this year. 

Don't know about how the Majors will look next season after losing some key players, but Dubose should have them re-loaded at the least...

http://www.gomajors.com/schedule.aspx?path=football&schedule=58&;

[awadelewis]

On a totally different note, I saw something that struck me as odd on the Rhodes website:

Rhodes Website Poll Question:  Who is Rhodes biggest SCAC Rival:
A) Centre
B) Sewanee
C) Trinity
D) DePauw
E) Hendrix

No Millsaps on the list?  That once was a huge rivalry and I wonder if I'm dating myself by thinking that it still is a rivaly.  If Centre-Rhodes is a bigger rivalry than Millsaps-Rhodes then things have changed quite a bit.

Don't know what the Rhodes people think but the game with Rhodes was the only game to ever generate any interest on the Mountain when I was student at Sewanee in the mid-80s.    I think it's still the same today. 

[Ron Boerger]

This may have been posted already, but just noticed the Millsaps 2009 schedule on the website.  The Trinity game is earlier in the season in Jackson this year followed the next week by Depauw in Greencastle, not an easy two weeks for the Majors!  Maybe the SCAC race will shape up early in the season this year. 

Don't know about how the Majors will look next season after losing some key players, but Dubose should have them re-loaded at the least...

http://www.gomajors.com/schedule.aspx?path=football&schedule=58&

Trinity's 2009 schedule is also up.  Starts with four straight roadies, the last of which is the aforementioned Millsaps tilt.   The bye week comes after week 5 (the home opener vs. B-SC).   Yeesh.

http://www.trinity.edu/departments/athletics/Football/schedule.htm

[D3_DPUFan]

This may have been posted already, but just noticed the Millsaps 2009 schedule on the website.  The Trinity game is earlier in the season in Jackson this year followed the next week by Depauw in Greencastle, not an easy two weeks for the Majors!  Maybe the SCAC race will shape up early in the season this year. 

Don't know about how the Majors will look next season after losing some key players, but Dubose should have them re-loaded at the least...

http://www.gomajors.com/schedule.aspx?path=football&schedule=58&;

Actually, I just checked DPU's site...the schedule has changed...Tigers have Millaps at home and Rhodes in Memphis back to back...then in Colorado Springs and back home for Trinity...

End the regular season at home with Austin and Wabash...

[DPU3619]

I wonder what the reason is for that change.  I don't think it really affects DePauw that much - they've got a pretty easy one before both Trinity (Sewanee) and Millsaps (Colorado). 

I think the one thing I'd like with regards to DePauw's schedule is to get one of the big three on the opposite year for home games.  Years like last year where you play @ TU, @ Millsaps, and @ Wabash are a killer.  Although, on the other hand, having those 3 at home this year sure will be nice.  Maybe I'll change my mind about that after this season's over.

[frank_ezelle]

I heard today that Millsaps has lost a third member of their football staff.  Aaron Pelch has been hired by the Oakland Raiders.  I'm not sure if he will be their special teams coach, an assistant special teams coach, or what. 

As I said in my post a couple of days ago, I believe one of the appeals for Coach DuBose in coaching is the mentoring of these assistant coaches and seeing them move on to bigger and better things.  Moving from D3 football to the NFL is certainly a heck of a leap.

These coaching promotions tell me two things.  First, it tells me just how high the quality is of the Millsaps coaching staff and if I was a high school player that would be a good reason to take a hard look at the Millsaps program.  And second, it tells me that an up and coming coach might want to apply at Millsaps because it seems to be a springboard for coaches who are looking to move up the coaching ladder.

On a personal note, I'll really miss Coach Pelch, Coach Woodson, and Coach Johnson, the 3 coaches I probably talked to the most, but I am very happy for them as they move up the coaching ladder.

[D3_DPUFan]

I wonder what the reason is for that change.  I don't think it really affects DePauw that much - they've got a pretty easy one before both Trinity (Sewanee) and Millsaps (Colorado). 

I wouldn't call those "easy ones"...games DePauw should win...perhaps. But playing in the heat and humidity on the Mountain against a Sewanee team that is getting better and traveling more than half way across the country to play a team that has taken you to overtime the past two seasons will not be easy, IMHO.

 

[DPU3619]

I'd rather go to Colorado and Sewanee before those games than go to Centre and Austin.  Or, worse, have Trinity and Millsaps in back to back weeks.

[D3_DPUFan]

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I'd rather go to Colorado and Sewanee before those games than go to Centre and Austin.  Or, worse, have Trinity and Millsaps in back to back weeks.

Of course...my point is the Sewanee and CC games should not be viewed as easy...

[DPU3619]

Christ.  Come on, man.  Why do you have to pick apart ever word that I post here?  Honestly.  That act is really wearing thin with me.  It's a relative term.   It gets no easier in this conference than that.  The only SCAC team that either of them have beat in the last two years (three years for Sewanee) is EACH OTHER.  Going to Colorado isn't like playing Hiram, Bluffton, or Olivet.  They're probably better than those teams.  The records don't show it, but they probably are.  Unfortunately, those other teams aren't in this conference.  Do all the "say all the right things" coachspeak stuff you want.  Whatever helps you sleep at night.   

If you want to play the "there are no easy wins in our super fantastic football conference!!111one!1!" card, go ahead.  It's easy for Trinity and Millsaps.  Hell, Rhodes was at home against those two teams, just like DePauw, and beat them by a combined 38 points.  DePauw beat them by only 10.  If DePauw wants to be in that conversation with Trinity and Millsaps, those wins need to start being that way for them, too.  A lot of those wins do.  You've probably got to beat at least two of Trinity, Millsaps, and Wabash, too, but that's not what we're talking about. 

You know how badly everybody close to this program wants the playoffs.  That's especially true now after the team and staff and fans all woke up the day after the Monon Bell Game and thought we were going to be in.  If you lose to 1-13 in the conference Colorado, then forget it.  That dream is over for another year, and probably longer with arguably the greatest QB in school history graduating.

[D3_DPUFan]

Wes---ease off the caffeine, bro...was just making an observation. I think we're on the same page here...

[D3_DPUFan]

Trinity's 2009 schedule is also up.  Starts with four straight roadies, the last of which is the aforementioned Millsaps tilt.   The bye week comes after week 5 (the home opener vs. B-SC).   Yeesh.

So Trinity will not have a home game until the mid point in the season? Ouch!

[Bill McCabe]

Trinity's 2009 schedule is also up.  Starts with four straight roadies, the last of which is the aforementioned Millsaps tilt.   The bye week comes after week 5 (the home opener vs. B-SC).   Yeesh.

So Trinity will not have a home game until the mid point in the season? Ouch!

That is a wacky schedule.

[Ralph Turner]

Trinity's 2009 schedule is also up.  Starts with four straight roadies, the last of which is the aforementioned Millsaps tilt.   The bye week comes after week 5 (the home opener vs. B-SC).   Yeesh.

So Trinity will not have a home game until the mid point in the season? Ouch!

That is a wacky schedule.

Trinity had 6 home games (including McMurry) last season.  McMurry only had 4.  They complete the 2-year contract this year.

[D3_DPUFan]

That is a wacky schedule.

...back to back road tilts against Rhodes and Millsaps...then at Greencastle in late October...the SA Tigers will indeed need to be road wariors this season...